Amanda Anastasi

Amanda Anastasi is a Melbourne poet published both locally and internationally, including in Best of Australian Poems, Best Australian Science Writing, Australian Poetry Journal, Griffith Review, Cordite Poetry Review, and The Massachusetts Review. Amanda is the author of ‘Taking Apart the Bird Trap’ (Recent Work Press, 2024) and ‘The Inheritors’ (Black Pepper, 2021). Amanda was Poet in Residence for three years at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, where she used poetry to communicate the climate crisis. She was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and received a Nielma Sidney Literary Travel Grant from Writer’s Victoria to write at the Great Barrier Reef. Amanda was recently commissioned by DFAT’s Climate Change Diplomacy Branch to write a poem for COP30 Brazil.